Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Flooding hits BiH

Flooding hit the Sarajevo area of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Monday due to persistent rain over the weekend.

Some
homes were flooded in the suburbs of Sarajevo, the capital of BiH, with
dozens of people evacuated. There were also several landslides and some
roads closed.There were no reports of casualties. Local
governments put their civil protection forces on alert as the rain
continued on Monday in Sarajevo Canton.

The Balkan state has not
recovered from the huge flooding in May, 2014, the worst in some 120
years, with dozens killed and large areas submerged underwater. Source: Xinhua - globaltimes.cn20/1/15--

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